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Re:Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language by justrealist on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:05PM (#36315248)
There's really no good data to support this claim.
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Re:Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language by romwell on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:12PM (#36315364)
>There's really no good data to support this claim.

Fine.

We know that languages did not exist at some point. We made them exist.

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Re:Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language by justrealist on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:21PM (#36315512)
Yes, I acknowledge that we have evidence that groups of tribal humans will evolve language constructs over tens of thousands of years.

Whether that happens in 1 generation or 10,000 generations is completely unknown.

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Re:Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language by sudosysgen on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:57PM (#36316034)
As others have mentioned in this thread, the Nicaraguan Sign Language shows it can happen in years, not even generations.
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